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Charlie emailed this report from the weekend:
October has been very tough in the surf and this weekend yielded more of the same. Windy conditions associated with high pressure has drove water temperature back up and I think this maybe confusing fall migration patterns. Weed mixed with muddy water conditions made surf structure very hard to read and the whole surf zone is loaded with bait, " where did the fish go".

Chris and I started down Saturday morning and when we came off the beach late Sunday evening we only had a dozen or so small whiting to show for our efforts, Thank goodness for Fish-Bites. On the way in Saturday morning we came across a Mexican gill-netters boat that had washed ashore near the 8m. Ranger Randy showed up about the same time we stopped and it appears the boat either drifted ashore from motor problems or was part of an illegal drug operation.

Working south we found muddy conditions all the way down to the Mansfield Jetties and a surf that was very hard to read. Caught a few large skip jacks and found an increase in finger mullet through the 40s & 50s. Late Saturday, around 5:30 PM we found several schools of larger fish feeding out on the jetties ends. Tarpon, Jacks and the first blue fish we've seen in three years would move in and out as the migrating finger mullet rounded the ends and crossed. We tried everything and had a few good fish follow our baits but no takers. This only lasted about an hour or so before sunset. Sunday morning again produced nothing and we only saw one bull redfish caught in the channel and one small flounder near the rocks. Coming out we stopped off in a dark shell deposit and Chris found a rather large and rare fossilized Bison tooth.

Another strange thing we observed this weekend were several large concentrations of small 6 to 8 inch ribbon fish in the surf zone. The Sharkathon contestants also did a really good job of cleaning up where they had been camping, maybe the Surf cats can follow their lead next year.

Charlie

Oz · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject: Damn..

Yep.. was insanely slow. A few reds and sharks about mix it up, but not much action period.

I have a weekend Sharkathon Report up here..

http://extremecoast.com/reports/report102304.htm

Good fun despite the condtions and a very well laid tournament by the organizers.

Btw, Anyone know if Nickaway got his truck fixed?
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TW · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject: slow

SLOW - how about dead
Monday Tuesday & Wednesday were dead as a doornail. We caught few Thursday south of Bob Hall. The bite was on for a couple hrs. Not much to show for 4 days of fishin.
Howards first Surf Trip. A Texas Slam
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Mapag · Mud Minnow Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 21

I noticed the water temperature at buoy 42020 has gone up from 82 deg. to 83 deg. since Oct. 1. Strange "fall" indeed we are having.

Seabass · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

WTG, Howard! First trip to PINS and he got a Texas Slam? Dang ... I've been fishing PINS for 3 years and have yet to catch a flounder or keeper red.

TW - I like how your pics were put up in panoramic mode. Looks good.

Seabass

Kyle aka Kcon · Tarpon King Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 208

Do you really think they were ribbon fish that were getting eaten? I chased'em down in the yak Sunday and all I could tell was that they weren't Ballyhoo or needlefish . They looked like 6" minnows to me because they were very flexible. When a bird would pick one up it was limp like a ribbon, but I saw no body-width. I also saw no thin tail. In other words, they looked cylindrical. But I only saw them from 25-60' away. I got no bites even though I did see the occasional swirl from below.

I'm not contradicting you, I just couldn't/can't figure out what they were. I guess I've never seen a baby ribbonfish. My problem was that they were right on the 2nd bar where the waves were breaking,(with the occasional 3rd bar breaker)and all I could do to fish there was pull up, cast, reel very fast, and then backpaddle my butt off before the next wave crunched me. I didn't do good this weekend but I did see a big 6'+ Mantray airborn, and I spooked a drifting cobia. But that was it......................Kyle

Oz · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: ribbonfish

Kyle, on Sunday I got several Ribbonfish in the castnet while trying to get Mullet. Water was very dirty in the 20's that morning. The smallest Ribbon was about 6" and the biggest about 16".
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Guest · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:45 am Post subject:

Kyle
We to thought they were ballyhoo at first, but later on they came in close enough to see they were small ribbon fish. I think the small ribbonfish were feeding on anchovies and the birds were picking off the smaller ones as they neared the surface. We also caught a few small ones in the cast net around the 28m on Sunday.
Charlie

C.A. Golla · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:49 am Post subject:

Well, now I know to log on first?
Charlie

Kyle aka Kcon · Tarpon King Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 208

Cool, I'm surprised I didn't catch anything in the yak even though I trolled some ribbons on Saturday. Slow eekend I guess.............Kyle

rabbit · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:36 am Post subject:

What happened to the motor on that boat or did they use a pabble?
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C.A. Golla · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

Someone removed it just before we got there at 7:00 AM. Zano came through around 3:00 AM and the moter was still on at that time????
Charlie

TheRip · Shark Wrangler Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 3

I think is was like 2 to 3 months ago I took off to hit up PINS with Nate on a Tuesday. We passed a boat on our way South that looked just like the one here. Didn't think to much on it until that night where we had set out some large Shark baits in the upper 50's. I think I got cut off around 10 so we were sitting in pitch black watching Nate's glow stick when we here what we think is a truck about to drive by but theres no lights. We started getting freak out because of how close it sounded. We shine the spotlight but can't see anything with all the sea spray. After hearing it a couple more times we realize its a boat that is right in front of our camp. Now we are thinking about all the drug smuggling and seeing that boat washed up made us wonder more. This made us decide to pick up and we ran back north to camp at the turtle shack to be close to other people and crashed out. For anyone that hasn't camped out that far South on PINS in the middle of the week its a whole different feeling then on a weekend.